Associate ProfessorLaura Ginters

Teaching

PRFM1602 Dangerous Performances

PRFM2602 Performance: Production and Interpretation

PRFM2603 Between Improvisation and Text

PRFM2607 Performance Histories

PRFM3611 Dramaturgy

PRFM3961 Rehearsal Studies

PRFM5902 Rehearsal Studies

FASS3999 Interdisciplinary Impact

Supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective HDR students with topics related to: dramaturgy and translation; Australian theatre history (including student and amateur theatre; 19th and early 20th century female theatre makers); Australian playwrights; feminist approaches/women in theatre; German theatre and theatre history (especially Büchner, Brecht and theatre practice in the 18-19thC); law and performance; production histories; rehearsal studies/history of rehearsal.

Current Postgraduate Candidates :

PhD : Bridget MacEochg�in, "Radicalising Rape on Stage"

PhD : Izabella Nantsou, "The Subsidy Question: Community Theatre and the Integral State"

PhD : Ting Zhang, "The transformational role of dramaturgy between production teams, critics and audiences in the transitional society of China"

PhD : Lawrence Ashford, "Towards a Dramaturgy of Interactive Theatre" (Associate Supervisor)

MA(Res) : Rowan Greaves, "White Faces and Nervous Laughter: Subversive Comedy in Australian Performance"

MA(Res) : Natalia Savvides, "Unearthing 'the real England' Foreign Influences in the Landscape of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia"

MA(Res) : David Gray, "Dramaturgy without Borders: Making Meaning Beyond the Moment of Performance" [currently suspended in 2023]

MA(Res) : Jimena Puente Trevino, "Los Empe�os de Una Casa, written by Mexican 17thCentury nun, poet, philosopher and playwright, Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz" (Associate Supervisor)

Postgraduate Completions :

2022 : PhD - Sally Blackwood, "(Re)Claim the Frame: a rethinking of opera and operatic practice in Australia" (Co-supervised with Dr Stephen Mould, Conservatorium of Music)

2022 : MA(Res) - Kerrie Roberts, "Gertrude's Hamlet: In Search of the King of Denmark's Daughter in Shakespeares Play" [Published as: Hamlet's Hereditary Queen. Performing Shakespeare's Silent Female Power. Routledge, 2023]

2021 : MA(Res) - Katrina Foster, "Firing the Can(n)on: Canon and Repertoire in Australian Theatre"

2019 : PhD - Elisabetta Peruzzi, "Kangarusskies: Behind the Revolution. Ballet technique and approaches to acting among Ballets Russes �migr�s in Australia" (Associate Supervisor)

2019 : MPhil - Rebekah Woodward-Hanna, "The Performance of Redress in Vanuatu" (Associate Supervisor) [Winner, Veronica Kelly Prize for Best Postgraduate Paper, ADSA Conference, 2013]

2018 : PhD - Julie Lynch, "Costume's Mirror Up To Nature: A study of how design contributes to the production of meaning for Shakespeare in performance." (Associate Supervisor)

2017 : PhD - Katherine Johnson, "Performing Pasts for Present Purposes" (Associate Supervisor)

2015 : PhD - Janet McGaw, "Country Awakening: Amateur Theatre in NSW Regional Communities 1945-1970" [Runner up, Veronica Kelly Prize for Best Postgraduate Paper, ADSA Conference, 2012 and 2013]

2014 : MA(Res) - Kathleen Roma Greer, "'He Puts Out His Hand. You Put Out Your Hand.' Emerging, Urban, Aboriginal Theatre-Makers. What Does It Take To Emerge?"

2013 : PhD - May-Brit Akerholt, "The Dramaturgy of Translation"

2012 : DArts - Liza-Mare Syron, "The Rise of the Indigenous Actor in Australia. Traversing Cultural and Pedagogical Terrains"

2010 : MA(Res) - Camilla Ah Kin, "A Chance Gathering of Strays. The Australian Theatre Family"

2008 : PhD - Kate Leader, "Trials, Truth-Telling and the Performing Body"